Ubuntu going through major changes - What's the Ubuntu Studio standpoint in all this?

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

The whole Mir mess might become another factor.  I assume it will be  a long
time before any media application gets ported to Mir, Wayland, or anything
other than X.  The fragmentation mess is being brought up elsewhere, with
fears that applications written for Mir will run only on Ubuntu, etc.

This could be a real mess for all distros based on Ubuntu, even though
both Mir and Wayland retain X compatability layers. X is heavy enough
by itself, running X applications through something like this will slow down 
marginal or fully-loaded machines.

I also expect that older DE's and things like XFCE, Cinnamon, etc will
be ported to another display server either late or never. 

For those of us not interested in joining the "Tablet/Touch Revolution"
it will be crucial that X stays in repo until all DE's have been ported over,
or permanently.

On 03/01/2013 at 7:05 PM, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>On Fri, March 1, 2013 2:57 am, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>
>> There's also a discussion going on about changing to rolling 
>release,
>> which might mean that 13.04 will never be released.
>> - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-
>February/036537.html
>
>The explanation actually makes sense. The reality is harder to 
>predict. It
>will make LTS SRUs more worth while and important which may take 
>some of
>the time and effort envisioned as being gained and refocusing on 
>LTS
>maint. That could be good though.
>
>Wait and see. I am not sure I know how to have an opinion one way 
>or the
>other. I have been using 13.04 on my daily desktop stuff and some 
>audio
>testing as well. It has been pretty solid.
>
>-- 
>Len Ovens
>www.OvenWerks.net
>
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